Rodent bait station

Abstract

A rodent poison bait station including a rectangular housing forming an enclosure cooperating with bait retaining panels to form a pair of bait containing compartments within the housing laterally of a pair of generally axially aligned rodent entrance holes. The bait retainers are offset from the entrance holes and maintained spaced-apart by bait confining rails extending therebetween which prevent bait being moved toward the entrance holes from the bait compartments. Access to the bait compartments by the rodent is achieved by rodent destruction of a grid covering a window in a panel forming a part of the bait compartment.

I claim: 
     
       1. A rodent bait station, comprising: a housing formed from light weight semi-flexible plastic, said housing having a flat top wall and parallel generally rectangular depending side, front and rear end walls with an outstanding flange formed on the lower edge of the respective depending wall;     a flat sheet forming a housing bottom wall hingedly secured to the outer limit of the flange on the rear end wall and adapted to be bonded to the outstanding flange of the respective walls, said side walls each having a rodent entry hole formed therein adjacent said front end wall in approximately axial aligned relation;     a pair of bait retainers disposed in spaced-apart relation in said housing adjacent said rear wall and the respective side wall to define an open rodent compartment between the bait retainers, each bait retainer of said pair of bait retainers including a front panel and a side panel joined together at one end in substantially right angular relation respectively parallel with the housing front wall and housing side walls and extending between the housing top and bottom walls and contacting at their respective other ends the respective housing side wall and the housing rear end wall,   each retainer side panel having a window facing in spaced-apart relation the window in the other side panel providing rodent access to contained bait;     rail means including a plurality of rails, T-shaped in transverse section, extending in parallel spaced-apart relation between said bait retainer side panels for normally preventing movement of bait from said bait retainers toward said housing front wall; and,   bait retainer anchor means including a vertically apertured gusset extending horizontally between and rigidly joining each said bait retainer front panel with the respective said bait retainer side panel and anchor pins depending from said housing top wall and projecting into the respective gusset aperture for preventing movement of said pair of bait retainers relative to said housing.